Word: misses
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...clerk. The driver must then wait until (s)he has time between runs to find a phone, by which time the reservation may have been long passed. This also compounds the problem of garbled information. The result of these "bugs in the system" is that students with disabilities miss significant amounts of class...
When former Mental Patient Robert E. Pates became rowdy outside Amelia's Lounge in Biloxi, Miss., local police charged him with public drunkenness and held him in the only padded cell in the Harrison County jail. "We decided to arrest him rather than let him hurt himself or somebody else," explained William Reynolds, one of the arresting officers. Less than 36 hours later, Reynolds' good intentions turned to tragedy. A fire that may have started in the urethane padding of Pates' cell pumped oily black smoke throughout the jail, killing 28 prisoners and injuring 60 other people...
Pates was charged with capital murder, which carries the death sentence. He was being held without bond and watched around the clock at the Gulfport, Miss., jail. Said Biloxi Policeman Nathan LeBlanc, who dragged at least 14 prisoners from the lethal fumes: "You arrest somebody and put him in jail. You expect him to be all right the next day. Then something like this happens. It makes you feel...
...heart. It speaks for things too long mute: love of the land (in this case, Southern Appalachia), the inviolability of the family, the rigorous ethic of hard work and the rebuke and solace of an omnipresent God. To think of that as a didactic, neo-conservative agenda is to miss the tone and temper of the work. Foxfire has already been called a "hillbilly Our Town," which is close to the mark. And even those with less than a lifetime's acquaintance with the work of Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy must know that this pair could strike songs...
...Soviet Muslims that an upsurge of Islamic fundamentalism in Iran and Afghanistan could have. Others said that we insisted on having "our own man" or that we were inflamed by the terrible deaths that Afghan insurgents were inflicting on Soviet advisers. There is something in these interpretations. But they miss the real point...